Aloha everyone. I just had a frightening few days. On Wednesday evening I went to the ER with extreme abdominal pains. It turned out I had a 1.5cm wide gall stone blocking my gall bladder as well as an infection in my gall bladder and pancreas. Needless to say the pain was indescribable. Everything is OK now and the fear of a spreading infection has passed. I'll be off from work for a while so maybe I'll be able to click off a few more carvings. Looks like a low-fat diet for quite a while. _________________Please visit my new website, Leeward Lounge Ukuleles

welcome to the Gall Bladder-less Club! i had a similar experience while on vacation in san diego a few years ago.. (the stone part, i had the surgery back home where i could chose my surgeon) terrifying experience, and my husband is a doctor ~ still, its very scarey!

did you turn a lovely shade of Jaundice Yellow? i had Marge Simpson skin...

Hey Finky, I was wondering what was going on (figured something came up). I'm sorry to hear about that, it must have been incredibly unpleasant, distressing and painful. I'm glad to hear you're fine now. Best wishes from the Eastern Shore.
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Thank you so much everyone! It makes me feel good to hear from you all. I'm doing much better now. There is mostly just the pain from the incisions and I'm tired all the time. The doctors were much more worried about the infection in my pancreas than they were about my gall bladder. But all is well and stable now.

Pablus, that article made me laugh (laughing hurts, by the way. thanks). Maybe I can erase all the postmenopausal woman stuff before I show it to my wife. "See Honey, I'm SUPPOSED to drink this much"

Gallstones are a good excuse, so we'll let you get off without posting new bonz for another day or so. After that, you'll have to get back to the bench 'cause we're expecting new killer workz from you. My wife agrees that what you had was a BAD gig, so you are off the hook with me. Scatch that....get back to work!